Tokyo!

By far the biggest city I have ever been to. Tokyo is amazingly huge! We rode the subway all over the city to see the kings palace, a shirne / temple for the god of thunder and god of wind, a huge market, and the times square of Tokyo, it looks just like the pictures from the NYC times square, except everything is in Japanese. Lights people and huge buildings. There are stores lining the streets and resturants everywhere.

For lunch we went into a Japanese fast food resturant, it took less than a minute to get a beef n rice bowl it was about 3.50, very cheap, and the food was excellent. People in resturants who are working there are very gentle and very nice, making sure you have the best customer service.

We also went to one o the tallest buildings in Tokyo and took pictures from the observation deck, we could see the entire city! We saw city in all directions for as far as the eye could see.

This morning I woke up and broke the screen door oops, its okay i fixed it.

It is raining today, which is very nice because it has been very hot here.

Pictures of Tokyo from the top of one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo.

Japan

After a 10 hour flight, I arrived in Narita airport in Japan. I took a train and a series of subways into Tokyo it took roughly 3.5 hours to get to my destination. Many people on the trains and subways were wearing masks, because of the concern with swine flu. I decided to wear my mask to help mitigate the risk of becoming held in an airport hotel for 10 days. During the ten hour flight I was able to watch three movies, Frost/Nixon, Inkheart, and Seven Pounds.  i am anxiously looking forward to tomorrow where I will be exploring Tokyo and all it has to offer, rather than just taking train after train through it with a giant backpack.  (Note, everyone and everything is much smaller here, so walking around carrying my bag was very awkward. ) Oh, and for those of you who dont know,  they drive on the other side of the road and the lanes are substantially smaller here than in the US.

For now, it is tomorrow… Oyasuminasai !